Transformational Research in Adolescent Mental Health (TRAM): A
Patient-Oriented Initiative - Call for Expressions of Interest
The Graham Boeckh Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research are pleased to launch a call for expressions of interest through
their partnership, the Transformational Research in Adolescent Mental
Health, for an upcoming research network.
The goal of the network is to unite patient and family representatives,
policy makers, researchers, service providers, community organizations and
other appropriate stakeholders. Together, they will act collectively to
improve, within five years, Canada's ability to identify young people with
mental illness, and improve the timeliness and quality of care provided to
them.
For more information, visit the website.

Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Networks - Call for
Expressions of Interest
Canada's Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) National Steering
Committee is inviting the health research community to provide input on
research network capacity in Canada.
This call for expressions of interest is being held from January 11 to
February 28, 2013. It is an opportunity for Canada's researchers to
provide information on the current network landscape. The goal is to
identify existing and emerging research network capacity in
patient-oriented research in Canada that could align with the SPOR network
objectives.
Detailed information on this call for expressions of interest and the
submission process can be found online.

Funding Opportunities / Grants / Awards (organized by deadline)
IPPH funding opportunities can be found here by selecting the Institute of
Population and Public Health under the CIHR Institute dropdown menu.

Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health
Washington University in St. Louis is sponsoring a 5-day training
institute to provide participants with a thorough grounding in conducting
dissemination and implementation research in health. For more information
on the institute, visit: the website.

Application Deadline: February 22, 2013
If you are a postdoctoral fellow, researcher or knowledge user aligned
with the strategic research priorities of the Canadian Institutes of
Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH),
you may be eligible for a skills update award to help support your
participation at this training institute. For more information visit the
website.
Deadline to submit applications to the CIHR-IPPH skills update award:
March 15, 2013

Operating Grant: Winter 2013 Priority Announcement (HIV/AIDS/CHVI)
Through this Priority Announcement, the CIHR HIV/AIDS Research Initiative
and the Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (CHVI) will provide funding for
Operating Grant applications that have a primary research focus on
HIV/AIDS and are determined to be relevant to one of the research priority
areas.
The maximum amount per operating grant is $ 150,000 for up to three years.
The maximum amount awarded for a single bridge grant is $100,000 per annum
for up to one year.
For more information please visit the website.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2013

China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative
The specific objective of the China-Canada Joint Health Research
Initiative is to promote the development of Canadian-Chinese scientific
co-operation between researchers located at universities, hospitals,
research institutes or affiliated research organizations in Canada and
China through the support of collaborative research grants.
For more information, visit the website.
Application deadline: March 14, 2013

2012-13 CIHR-IPPH Institute Community Support (ICS) Program
The ICS is designed to foster community development by providing grants
and awards (including travel awards) to individuals and organizations for
the purposes of:
&#151; Aiding research and knowledge translation activities where the
circumstances fall outside CIHR's programs
&#151; Supporting organizations and activities whose goals are consistent
with the Institute's and CIHR's vision, mandate and strategic directions
Visit the IPPH ICS website for more information. Please note that travel
awards are now administered through ResearchNet.
Application deadline: March 15, 2013

Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation Student Essay Competition
The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation invites students to submit
essays to the Student Essay Competition. Essays should be up to 3,000
words long (excluding references and appendices) and address any topic in
health services or health policy.
For more information, contact Susan Law.
Application deadline: March 29, 2013

Career Development Awards in Prevention (Canadian Cancer Society)
Career Establishment Awards in Prevention have been created to support the
career development of junior investigators in the area of cancer
prevention/risk reduction research and community-based clinical research
in cancer prevention by providing protected research time. Applications
are invited from researchers in the fields of social/psychosocial and
behavourial science, health policy, population health, health promotion,
health services, etiology, health economics and genetics aimed at cancer
prevention
For more information, visit the website.
Application Deadline: April 1, 2013

Catalyst Grants for Environments, Genes and Chronic Disease
These Catalyst Grants are supported by INMD, in partnership with the
Institutes of Aboriginal People's Health; Cancer Research; Gender and
Health; Genetics; Infection and Immunity; Musculoskeletal Health and
Arthritis; and Population and Public Health.
The Catalyst Grants, of $100K for one year to each successful applicant,
will provide up to $1.1M to assist researchers in developing new research
activities, such as feasibility studies and multi-disciplinary
collaborations, which relate to advancing knowledge in the field of
environment-gene interactions in chronic disease.
For more information, visit the website.
Application Deadline: April 2, 2013

Knowledge Synthesis Grant : Spring 2013 Competition
CIHR's mandate is to excel, according to internationally accepted
standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge and
its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health
services and products and a strengthened Canadian health care system. The
purpose of this funding opportunity is to support teams of researchers and
knowledge users to produce knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews that
will contribute to the use of synthesized evidence in decision-making and
practice.
Application Deadline: April 2, 2013

CIHR Partnership Award
The CIHR Partnership Award annually recognizes a partnership that
exemplifies excellence. The recipients receive a $25,000 award in the form
of a one-year research grant for advancing the research or knowledge
translation activities of the partnership.
These partnerships involve organizations from the private, voluntary or
public sectors. They bring health research communities together:
&#151; to create innovative approaches to research questions;
&#151; to develop research agendas that are responsive to the health
needs, concerns and priorities of Canadians; and
&#151; to accelerate the translation of knowledge for the benefit of
Canadians.
Details on the eligibility and selection criteria are available on CIHR's
website.
Deadline for nominations: May 1, 2013

CIHR Barer-Flood Prize for Health Services and Policy Research
This new prize is a career achievement award that honours and recognizes
an exceptional researcher in the area of health services and policy
research who has created an influential body of work that has had a
substantial impact on health services and policy research, policy and/or
care delivery. The prize consists of $25,000 in research grant funding.
For more information, visit the website.
Application deadline: May 1, 2013

Calls for Abstracts / Papers

Call for papers: Special issue of the Revista Panamericana de Salud
Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health on Social Determinants of
Health
The Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public
Health, published by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),
announces a call for papers for the next special issue on social
determinants of health, to be published in 2013.
Accepted contributions include original research papers, special reports,
or systematic reviews.
For more information, visit the website.
Deadline: April 1, 2013

Call for Abstracts &#151; Canadian Association on Gerontology
The Canadian Association on Gerontology is pleased to announce the Call
for Abstracts for CAG2013: Aging...from Cells to Society, October 17-19,
2013 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
For more information visit the website.
Abstracts are due by April 15, 2013.

CAG2013: Call for Abstracts
The Canadian Association on Gerontology is pleased to announce the Call
for Abstracts for CAG2013: Aging...from Cells to Society, October 17-19,
2013 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, our 42nd Annual Scientific and
Educational Meeting.
For more information, visit the website.
Deadline: April 15, 2013
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Scholarship / Fellowship / Internship Opportunities

Doctoral Fellowship with Equity Lens in Public Health
Applications are invited for a 2-year doctoral fellowship with the Equity
Lens in Public Health (ELPH) Program of Research at the University of
Victoria. ELPH is a Core Public Health Functions Research Initiative
(CPHFRI) program of research and is housed in the University of Victoria
School of Nursing and Centre for Addictions Research of BC (CARBC). The
ELPH Program of Research is seeking highly qualified candidates to engage
in research related to health equity in public health and application of
an equity lens in BC public health policy related to mental health
promotion and preventing the harms of substance use. We are specifically
looking for someone interested in knowledge translation and exchange
research.
For more information, visit the website.
Deadline: March 15, 2013

University of Calgary Post-Doctoral Fellow in Food Insecurity Policy
The Post-doctoral Fellow in Food Insecurity Policy will join an
international team examining policy interventions to reduce food
insecurity. The Fellow's research will specifically contribute to an
interpretive policy analysis that addresses the question, "How is
household food insecurity defined and socially constructed as a policy
problem in Canada?"
Preliminary inquiries by email are welcome.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity
The Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and the Nova Scotia
Cochrane Resource Centre at Dalhousie University are seeking a
Postdoctoral Fellowship candidate to work within an evidence synthesis
research program.
For more information about Postdoctoral Fellowship positions at Dalhousie
University, visit the website.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Courses, Workshops and Webinars

Promoting research through tweets, blogs and video - webinar open for
registration
Learn how to get your research into mainstream media
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Population and
Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) is hosting a webinar on using social media for
population and public health researchers. This is the second in a series
of communications webinars hosted by the Institute.
The webinar will be held Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm EST.
This webinar aims to develop skills needed by population and public health
researchers to effectively convey their research to the media and general
public using social media platforms.
Please register online.

Learn how to get your research into the media spotlight
A communications workshop for population and public health researchers
If you are a researcher with an interest in communications and population
and public health you are encouraged to apply to this full-day workshop.
Date: Thursday, June 6, 2013
Location: Montreal, QC
There is no registration fee associated with the workshop. Eligible travel
and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed by the sponsors.
For more information, visit the website.
Application Deadline: March 15, 2013

Banff Science Communications Course
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Population and
Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) is supporting the Banff Science Communications
Course (July 21-Aug. 4, 2013) to foster capacity building in population
and public health science communications.
The course is an immersive two-week residency experience that is aimed at
mid-career professionals in both science and communications. The program
is structured around daily seminars and workshops on new forms of creative
science communications. Emphasis is on group discussion and work, and
participants will be urged to create outside their usual medium of
scientific communication. At the end of the program, participants publicly
present collaboratively created group projects.
We would like to encourage you to apply and to let your colleagues know
about this exciting opportunity. Please note that funding up to $5000 is
available through the CIHR-IPPH Skills Update Awards.
CIHR-IPPH Skills Update Awards application deadline: March 15, 2013.
Application details are available online.
Banff Science Communications Course application deadline: March 31, 2013.
Please indicate in your application to the Banff Course if you have
applied for a CIHR-IPPH Skills Update Award. More information about the
course is available online.

Online Course: Introduction to Health Impact Assessment of Public Policies
May 1 - June 1, 2013
This course aims to help participants to develop and improve their
competencies for leading an HIA process relating to public policies, and
to do this with partners from different sectors.
The content of the course is structured into three main themes, organized
as modules:
&#151; The historical, methodological and scientific foundations of HIA
&#151; Producing high quality HIAs
&#151; Knowledge sharing and decision making.
For more information, visit the website.
Registration deadline: March 20, 2013

Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy (International Development Research
Centre)
This position is focused on connecting IDRC to the Canadian landscape.
Reporting to the Director of the Corporate Strategy and Evaluation
Division, as the Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy you will conduct
research and provide tactical analysis, advice and information for IDRC's
Board of Governors, the President as well as senior management and staff
on matters of corporate policy and strategic planning. You will be
responsible for analysis of trends in development research and critical
issues that affect the IDRC's operations. In addition, you will engage in
discussions with Canadian government officials on the role of IDRC and its
programs within Canada's international assistance envelope. Also, you will
engage directly with senior managers in IDRC. You will play a key role in
strategic planning and ensuring input to the planning process, both inside
and outside IDRC.
For more information, visit the website.
Application deadline: February 24, 2013

Have you Read / Seen?
Are Guidelines Enough? A Successful Example of Evidence-Based Guidelines
Protecting the Health of Health Workers (Guest Editorial on Workplace
Health and Safety)

Calendar of Upcoming Events
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Share your Publications and Success Stories

Has your research led to a breakthrough, the development of a new
product/program, or changes in policy and practice? We want to hear about
it! Your story may be featured on our web site or in the next issue of our
Institute newsletter - POP News. Please email your publications and / or
impact stories to Emma Cohen, IPPH Knowledge Translation and
Communications Officer.

University of Calgary Post-Doctoral Fellow in Food Insecurity Policy
(anglais seulement)
The Post-doctoral Fellow in Food Insecurity Policy will join an
international team examining policy interventions to reduce food
insecurity. The Fellow's research will specifically contribute to an
interpretive policy analysis that addresses the question, "How is
household food insecurity defined and socially constructed as a policy
problem in Canada?"
Preliminary inquiries by email are welcome.